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  • Title: The incidence of anti-zona activity in post-menopausal women.
    Author: Dietl J, Lohfeld J, Mettler L.
    Journal: Maturitas; 1982 Dec; 4(4):267-72. PubMed ID: 6763132.
    Abstract:
    Forty sera from post-menopausal women were tested for the presence of anti-zona pellucida antibodies by an immunofluorescence method. Twenty sera showed positive fluorescence on the surface of cumulus-free porcine oocytes. In a control group of 22 female blood-donors of reproductive age, only three sera gave positive fluorescence. In all the above mentioned positive sera the anti-zona antibodies could be absorbed with porcine erythrocytes. This was, however, not the case when rabbit anti-porcine zona pellucida sera were used instead of the human sera. This would suggest that porcine erythrocytes and human zonae pellucidae share common antigenic determinants.
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